3 Wellington Street

3 Wellington Street is a textile (wool) warehouse dating from 1872, likely designed by John Kirk and Sons, possibly for Bielefeld and Wertheim, and with later alterations. The building is constructed of buff sandstone with a slate roof covered by a central lead flat section.

The warehouse occupies an irregularly pentagonal plan, facing east. A cranked south wall connects to numbers 23 and 25 Wellington Road to the west, and number 5 Wellington Street to the north. It stands within the Dewsbury Town Centre Conservation Area, at the southern end of a block of smaller warehouses.

The exterior is five storeys high, adopting a Classical palazzo style. The five-bay ashlar frontage to Wellington Street has a rusticated ground floor, which was painted in 2022. The ground and first floors feature bracketed cornices, the ground floor cornice acting as a first-floor sill band, with horizontal labels between the brackets. Each of the three upper floors also have a sill band and cornice, with horizontal niches below the sills and moulded window architraves framed by vertical niches. The main entrance has a shouldered flat head with a replacement door. To its left are two replacement windows, and a wide modern entrance. Most windows are timber sashes with two-over-two panes. Four first-floor windows have shouldered, flat heads. A half-height window in the right-hand bay features a foliate-shouldered architrave, surmounted by foliate carving and a cartouche bearing the monogram “J W” and the date 1872 in relief. The roof is hipped on all sides.

The north wall is partially obscured at ground and first floor levels by number 5. Above this, the wall is of coursed stone, with four windows to each floor, linked by ashlar sill and lintel bands. The eaves cornice continues along this façade.

The Back Nelson Street elevation also features a returning eaves cornice. The six-bay façade is cranked between bays 2 and 3 (counting from the left). Windows are linked by ashlar sill and lintel bands. Bay 4 contains former loading doorways, with a hoist jib visible. All openings on the side walls have replacement uPVC windows.

Internally, the original roof structure, along with structural cast-iron columns and timber beams (some now boxed-in), remain. The hoist mechanism is also retained within the roof structure. Modern partitions and finishes have been introduced, though much of the original brickwork of the outer walls remains exposed.